Data Transformation Specialist

Reporting to the Manager, Data Science & Operations, the Data Transformation Specialist will help build, scale, and maintain MPI’s business intelligence and data science platform. The role will scale the corporation’s cloud and on-premises infrastructure, improve tools used by analysts and data scientists, streamline data feeds processes, and help improve data quality.

This Data Transformation Specialist plays a key role in elevating the business intelligence and data science delivery by building reliable pipelines and infrastructure to help the team improve modelling efficiency and consistency of data.

Data Transformation and Engineering                                                                                    

• Contributes to data pipelines by implementing a solid, robust, extensible design that supports key business flows.
• Performs data transformations to populate data-hub, data-lake, data warehouse, reporting databases and downstream data marts.
• Identifies technical requirements and delivers solutions by establishing efficient design and programming patterns that meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and help manage the data platform.
• Responsible for finding trends in data sets and developing algorithms to help make raw data more useful to the enterprise.
• Designs, integrates, and documents technical components for seamless data extraction and analysis.
• Presents insights on data and its quality via presentations, visualizations, and whitepapers.
• Actively promotes automation of data quality, proposes, and implements solutions.
• Supports the corporation’s broader technical and operational requirements by adopting best practices in our data systems.
• Works in a team environment, interacting with multiple groups daily, within the department, as well as throughout the corporation.

Support Analytics and Data Science Capabilities                                  

• Works with business stakeholders to establish an understanding of the business and determine the data needs of the business.
• Communicates challenges and requirements to subject matter experts and clients, providing clear objectives over estimated timeline.
• Facilitates effective communication between business stakeholders and technology resources. Translates complex technology information into simple, clear, and accurate language to ensure understanding by stakeholders.
• Provides training to MPI system users, as required.
• Remains up to date on recent technologies that maximize the speed, performance, and access to data for analytics and machine learning and reducing costs.
• Responds to ad-hoc client requests.
• Leads projects from conception to completion and provides leadership to project resources.
• Provides training on data modelling and on the maintenance of data quality to analysts and project resources.
• Focuses on continuous learning, experimenting, applying, and contributing towards cutting edge open-source data technologies and software.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education: Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.

Experience:

• Five years of experience in data management, data engineering, and analytics, including data architecture, data integration, data warehousing, and cloud-based analytics solutions.
  • Within the above experience, at least three years of experience in data management disciplines such as data architecture, data integration, data warehousing, or analytics.
  • Two years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting data integration, data engineering, data warehousing, and analytics solutions using Microsoft’s cloud analytics platforms and services.
• The following are considered assets:
  • Experience in a leadership capacity.
  • Experience with virtualization in an enterprise environment.
  • Experience in the insurance or finance industry.
  • Experience with AWS, GCP, Snowflake, or other cloud data platforms.

Technical Knowledge and Skills:

Cloud Platforms

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, PowerBI, and Azure Data Lake technologies.
• Working knowledge of architecting efficient framework and optimization designs for analytics platforms, data warehouse design, virtualization, pipelines, ELT, ETL, SSIS packages.
• Designs and implements medallion architecture, including bronze, silver, and gold data layers.
• Intermediate knowledge of big data, distributed computing, data pipelines, dimensional modelling, columnar and row-based databases, data visualization, machine learning, and data layer designs.
• Strong knowledge of Python, and high proficiency to design and develop ELT pipelines using Spark and Databricks.

Data Analytics

• Working knowledge of PowerBI, Business Objects, or similar Business Intelligence tools.
• Working knowledge of handling log or event streaming data sources.
• Knowledge of Data Science and Machine Learning concepts.
• Performs root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement.

General

• Working knowledge of DevOps, DataOps, and Git.
• Working knowledge of container technologies e.g., Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of additional programming languages (e.g., Java, .Net) and ETL tools (e.g., SSIS).
• Working knowledge of writing Stored Procedures and developing in tools such as Microsoft SQL Server.
• Advanced written and oral communications skills to convey technical information in a clear, concise, and understandable manner for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Advanced problem solving and analytical skills.
• Works with accuracy and attention to detail.
• Manages conflicting priorities and adapt to changing circumstances.
• Interacts with all levels of staff and management in an efficient and courteous manner.

Health benefits

We offer a comprehensive health benefits program that includes:

• flexible health, dental and vision plans
• health spending account
• travel health coverage
• other extended health benefits such as ambulance, massage and physiotherapy

Financial security

In an effort to support financial security, we offer:

• registered pension plan
• group, dependent, and optional life insurance coverage
• sick leave to cover short-term disability
• long-term disability

Wellness

We offer programs that focus on how to better achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, as well as maintain a healthy workplace culture. This includes:

• vacation entitlement
• maternity, parental and adoptive leaves
• bereavement and family responsibility leaves
• employee and family assistance program
• mental-health programming
• onsite employee gym facility (Cityplace)
• discounted gym memberships
• wellness account

Diversity and inclusion

Manitoba Public Insurance believes that diversity and inclusion strengthens us. We consider ourselves to be a barrier-free organization where individual values, beliefs and practices are respected and appreciated for the diversity they bring to our work life.

Employee recognition

It’s important to recognize our employees for their contributions. Not only do we recognize employees as they achieve milestone years in their careers, we also have several outlets for leaders and peers to reward each other for work well done.

Professional development

We want our employees to grow, which is why we offer support in keeping their skills up to date. We offer in-house training, professional development and an educational assistance program.

Safety and health

In an effort to encourage a safe and healthy work environment, we offer various safety, health and workplace policies and programs along with technical expertise and assistance to support employee activities in safety and health.